Part 3 A: From these interviews I learned of the many interesting ways that people kept business coming in during the Great Depression. During these times, people had very little money to spend, and Clyde "Kingfish" Smith got creative and started singing songs to advertise his low fish prices. When he sang, it drew in his customers because they were astonished to hear that his fish only cost five cents a pound. I also learned that many people would have to go against their beliefs just to survive in the economy. For example, I read about Bernice, a woman who came to New York City thinking that rent parties were horrible and tacky; but when her husband left her and she had no job, she had no choice but to begin renting out rooms and holding parties on Saturday nights so she could support herself financially. The Great Depression was a time of sacrifice for survival. I learned a lot about the people in the Great Depression. People had to do things which they thought was wrong and disgracefull like Bernice who was a party hostess. She said, "When I first came to New York from Bermuda I thought rent-parties were disgraceful. I couldn't understand how any self-respecting person could bear them, but when my husband, who was a pullman porter, ran off and left me with a sixty-dollar-a-month apartment on my hands and no job."(Bernice) People in the depression did not want to do the things they did and especially did not want their kids to do the jobs they had to do now. For, example, Mr.Garavelli was a stone cutter. His job was dangerous because of the fatal silica that the cutters inhaled, causing a huge amount of deaths. He said that he did not want his children ending up with the same job that he did."You bet your life my kid don't go to work in no stoneshed." I also learned about segregation in the Great Depression. There was a man named Clyde "Kingfish" Smith who sold fish and he would sing out to his customers to keep happy during the hard times. These interviews informed us of the many ways that employees during the Depression would lift the spirits of themselves and those around them; how they made the bad times feel not quite as bad. Thinking about Bernice and Mr. Garavelli, we could see how people would work any job that they could get their hands on, whether it be dangerous or disgraceful, just to scrape by week-by-week. We also discovered that entrepeneurs started to come up with little jingles or threw parties on the weekends to encourage their customers to come and spend their money at their business, because it was the cheapest around or it was just a good time.
From these interviews I learned of the many interesting ways that people kept business coming in during the Great Depression. During these times, people had very little money to spend, and Clyde "Kingfish" Smith got creative and started singing songs to advertise his low fish prices. When he sang, it drew in his customers because they were astonished to hear that his fish only cost five cents a pound. I also learned that many people would have to go against their beliefs just to survive in the economy. For example, I read about Bernice, a woman who came to New York City thinking that rent parties were horrible and tacky; but when her husband left her and she had no job, she had no choice but to begin renting out rooms and holding parties on Saturday nights so she could support herself financially. The Great Depression was a time of sacrifice for survival.
I learned a lot about the people in the Great Depression. People had to do things which they thought was wrong and disgracefull like Bernice who was a party hostess. She said, "When I first came to New York from Bermuda I thought rent-parties were disgraceful. I couldn't understand how any self-respecting person could bear them, but when my husband, who was a pullman porter, ran off and left me with a sixty-dollar-a-month apartment on my hands and no job."(Bernice) People in the depression did not want to do the things they did and especially did not want their kids to do the jobs they had to do now. For, example, Mr.Garavelli was a stone cutter. His job was dangerous because of the fatal silica that the cutters inhaled, causing a huge amount of deaths. He said that he did not want his children ending up with the same job that he did."You bet your life my kid don't go to work in no stoneshed." I also learned about segregation in the Great Depression. There was a man named Clyde "Kingfish" Smith who sold fish and he would sing out to his customers to keep happy during the hard times.
These interviews informed us of the many ways that employees during the Depression would lift the spirits of themselves and those around them; how they made the bad times feel not quite as bad. Thinking about Bernice and Mr. Garavelli, we could see how people would work any job that they could get their hands on, whether it be dangerous or disgraceful, just to scrape by week-by-week. We also discovered that entrepeneurs started to come up with little jingles or threw parties on the weekends to encourage their customers to come and spend their money at their business, because it was the cheapest around or it was just a good time.